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> How serious? From my understanding, that really depends what you're using it for. My friends mostly use Nord to get around region locks for Netflix etc. I th
by donkeyd 7y ago
> How serious?
From my understanding, that really depends what you're using it for. My friends mostly use Nord to get around region locks for Netflix etc. I think impact for them is minimal.
If you were using NordVPN in Hong Kong, to cover your involvement in the protests, then it could be a lot more serious. I wouldn't use Nord (or any comparable provider) for that anyway, since their holdings tend to be pretty opaque. That doesn't mean nobody did use it for stuff like that though.
- Bartweiss 7y agoI see the Twitter thread mentions: > And someone just mentioned to me that past encrypted sessions may be able to be decrypted, which is a much bigger issue!...I haven't researched enough about OpenVPN to know if it's using forward secrecy, though you'd hope so Any idea where that claim is coming from? Nord's site mentions having forward secrecy in place, so presumably most historical stuff is safe unless they botched that. Of course, somebody in e.g. Hong Kong could still have gotten a MitM attack if they were active while these keys were being used, which is reason enough to worry about exposure.